Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-08-20
SATURDAY. AUGUST %, 1887.
Work for the Boss.


are indignant that he should presume
to issue pamphlet OF sixty pages,
nominally, of course, in the interest of
the Republican party, but really hav-
ing no other object than the glorifca-
ton of MALONE. L'cta', c'cst moi: :
The Republican party, it is MALONE
This is the burthen of his song.
One Of the leaders of the Republican
patty proper-we allude to the men who
were Republicans when MALONE was a
professional Democrats S. NJ.
YosT. of StauntOn. as is also his son
JACOB, congressman-elect from the
Stanton district. These gentlemen
are the editors of the Tdilcy VjTyinian,
which all must admit to he the leading
Republican paper in Virginia, and are
not disposed TO ignore MAHoNE's Of
fence of sighting all the Republican
congressman from this State. In the
last issue of their paper they mildly
protest against that injustice-as fol-
lows:
"To our mind its THE pamphlet's]
publication in the manner and form in
which it appears will not add to the
fame Of the author or contribute to Re-
publican success in the State"
"If General Alahones claim is well
grounded then the Republican mem
hers Of the House from Virginia hayo
been a mere collection of idle block
heads, without brains, energy, or inhu-
ence."
Gin the sixty pages OF General Ma
homes book the name of no single Re
publican member OF Congress from
Virginia appears, nor could it be in
ferred from the most careful perusal
that any one had rendered the slightest
assistance to the author in prosecuting
the work. Indeed, all and everything
accomplished for the State within the
past six years is modestly appropriated
bv the General himself and given to the
world as the result solely Of his labor.
The ex-senator may Justly claim
credit for fair share of the benefits
which have been bestowed upon the
State during lis term OF Office, but is
scarcely entitled to monopoly to the
entire exclusion Of his colleagues.
Mr.. YosT, Jr., thus protests in adj
vance that he has no idea of permitting
MALONE to claim the credit for what he
OosD may as member of Congress
do for his constituents.
That the conduct of MALONE towards
his followers is a sore subject with the
TdHcy Tirginim is proved by its at
tempt to show that Mr.. BARBOUR is
himself boss after the order Of Ma
HONE. But, unfortunately for our
Staunton contemporary, the facts are
Numerically opposed to its averments,
and cannot be so distorted as to consist
with its theory. One transferable
fact-one that nobody can explain
away when the question of boss
ship is raised against Mr.. BAR
BOUR-is that Notwithstanding his I'M
paralleled services to the Democratic
party of Virginia, and notwithstanding
the large number of able and devoted
friends he had in the Legislature, he
was defeated as candidate for the
United States Senate by gentleman
whom nobody has ever supposed to be
q "boss." The Democrats are not
called upon to prove negative; but
their case is SO strong that they can do
even this. Should Mr.. BARBOUR have
better luck this year, and be elected to
the United States Senate, it will not be
because he is a boss, but because the
people themselves will have taken the
matter in hand.
Writing under the consciousness
that its faction is controlled by Ma
HONE, and longing for that company
which Misery always desires, the pir-
giniaa undertakes to satisfy its readers
that the Democratic kettle is as black
as The Republican pot that Mr.. BAR
BouR is the boss of the Democrats (; ana
that tie coming contest is to be, on the
mart of the Democrats, nothing but a
fiobt TO make Mr.. BARBOUR a United
States senator. 1t then repents in sack
cloth and ashes for its party, and tells
his companionsin distress-the genuine
old-issue Republicans-how they ought
TO conduct themselves. We quote:
LET every Republican and Inie-
pepdent candidate announce from the
platform that he is in the field to aid
Virginia in her struggle for material
prosperity ; to enact business laws for
businessmen, &c, &C., DC.
ana 10 Ire end that the senatorial con-
test may be subordinated TO The real
issues, let him announce nat he s0itl
enttr no senatorial caucus, but will be
bound in this, as in all other respects,
to consult alone the best good OF Vir-
gina in the vote he shall cast for United
States senator"
The italics are not ours.
There is rebellion in the camp. But
= does anybody suppose that MALONE
will allow any Republican TO be elected
to the Legislature who will not pledge
himself to support him for United
States senator? The people OF Vir-
giDia have net forgotten the written
pledge which he exacted from his fol
lowers few years ago. Has he changed
bis methods since? Not he. He has
no other methods. The Trginiaa'S
recommendation will not secure the
endorsement OF even one member OF
the new Legislature. CAMERON, BRADY.
Yosr, LEWIS, RIDDLgBERGEa, and all
the rest OF the malcontents might as
veil make up their minds at once that
they must get rid OF MALONE before
h3se<s can Ia any genuine ReDublican